O scale - late 1940s/early 1950s.
Owner: Bob Poole
Layout Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL area.
Layout room is 29' x 49'.
Custom track plan by John Armstrong replicates changes in elevation along the route.
Single track main line with passing sidings.
Era is late 1940s/early 1950s.
Benchwork construction began Aug. 2004 and finished Dec. 2008. As of May 2009, mainline subroadbed and roadbed nearly complete, and 5% of mainline track is installed and wired. Yard trackage laid out but not yet installed. All backdrops/viewblocks installed and painted sky blue; will use enlarged photo background scenes taken along actual ROW.
Currently DC for test phase but will convert to DCC.
Small fictional branch line from Moorpark to fictional town of La Cumbre, inspired by Fillmore and nearby citrus groves.
Motive power includes steam and diesel, most previously operated on much smaller previous layout, now dismantled.
All structures from that layout will be installed on this one, comprising about 50% of planned structures.
No scenery yet, and no structures yet in place.
SP System Map 1944
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1 comment:
Hi Bob,
Your layout and time frame sound very interesting and close to what I envisioned for my layout.
Please post pictures if you have.
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